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c7000 blade teaming questions

 
Wyman Chong
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c7000 blade teaming questions

Hi,
I have several c7000 enclosures with bl460c enclosures and 2 Cisco 3120x switches that are stacked. I am trying to configure each blade to team the 2 Nics for bonding them and being able to get up to 2GBps of bandwidth. I read the HP Proliant Teaming White Paper and it looks like I want to either use SLB or 802.3ad.
When using 802.3ad the switch does not need any configuration (Is this right)?

I just want to confirm I will not need to configure any etherchannels and no configuration is needed on the switch.

Thanks
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HEM_2
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Re: c7000 blade teaming questions

Wyman:

starting on Page 797:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/blades/3120/software/release/12.2_40_ex/configuration/guide/3120scg.pdf

and yes, there is configuration required on the switch for 802.3ad. For example, "channel-group mode active"
Wyman Chong
New Member

Re: c7000 blade teaming questions

Just to confirm I configured the switch as follows...
related entries...
interface Port-channel1
switchport mode access

!
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/2
switchport access vlan 6
channel-group 1 mode active
spanning-tree portfast

interface GigabitEthernet2/0/2
switchport access vlan 6
channel-group 1 mode active
spanning-tree portfast

On the client I Teamed the 2 NICS and selected 802.3ad Dynamic with Fault Tolerance and used Automatic for Transmit Load Balancing method.